Improvement in temporary binders



A. AQGDLDSMITH.

Temporary Binders.

No.l50,025 PatemdApri| 21,1874.

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ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES f NrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ABRAHAM A. GOLDSMITH, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,025, dated April 21, 1874; application filed February 521, 1874.

' ence marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a front elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the same.

This invention has relation to the devices for pressing and filing letters, papers, and other loose or unbound matter, and it consists in combining, with a slotted or recessed follower and a removable standard, devices for holding pointed wire staples, on which the papers can be secured together and removed from the press, as will be hereinafter eX- plained. y v

In the annexed drawings, A represents the bed or base plate of a portable press, and B is an arched standard, which is rigidly but removably secured to the plate A by means of pins a a. This standard has tapped through it a screw, C, carrying a follower, I), a-nd a hand-wheel, C. The follower D is connected to the screw C by means of a collar, f, applied to turn freely in a recess, g. Beneath the follower D, and arranged at a suitable distance apart, are wire staples b b, having pointed prongs. The connecting portions of these staples b are fitted into grooves made in the plate A, and held down by the free ends of springplates c c, which ends are slotted at c c', to allow the application and removal of the staples. The papers are filed upon these staples b, and contined under pressure by means' of.' the follower and its screw, the follower being perforated at e, to allow the prongs of the staples to pass through it.

lVhen a file is complete, thefollower is raised, or the standard B may be removed, and, by means of a pair of pliers, the projecting ends ofthe staples are twisted together, thus securing the le in a very neat and permanent manner. The spring-:lingers c will then allow the iile to be removed from the press and other staples inserted under them.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The bed A, having the spring staple-holding fingers c, in combination with the recessed follower D and the removable standard B, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my naine in the presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM A. GOLDSMITH.

Vitnesses Asrrnn D. COHEN, JACOB WILLIMAN. 

